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Adjournment debate on Wednesday, 24 January 2007, in the House of Commons, led by Baroness Beckett. The answering member was Lord Hague of Richmond.

Iraq and the wider Middle East

Debate on a motion for the adjournment on Iraq and the Middle East.

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Parliamentary proceeding
Reference
455 c1425-524 
Session
2006-07
Department
Foreign and Commonwealth Office
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
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Iraq. Minutes of evidence 11 January 2007.
Thursday, 11 January 2007
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Proceeding contributions
Speaker | 455 c1425 (Link to this contribution) We now come to the main business, and I inform the House that there will be a 10-minute limit on Bac...
Baroness Beckett | 455 c1428 (Link to this contribution) Investigations along those lines are continuing and no doubt will take some time. Although it would,...
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Daniel Kawczynski | 455 c1428 (Link to this contribution) The Foreign Secretary mentioned reconstruction and the importance of helping the Iraqi Government wi...
Baroness Beckett | 455 c1428 (Link to this contribution) First, my hon. Friend asks me for the figures from the beginning of the year. From memory, the Iraqi...
John McDonnell | 455 c1427 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend mentioned that the Prime Minister would come to the House at the end of Operati...
Baroness Beckett | 455 c1427 (Link to this contribution) I do not think either of us was—certainly, I was not slow to condemn it. There was extensive comment...
Lord Bellingham | 455 c1427 (Link to this contribution) I take on board what the Secretary of State says about reconciliation, but does she agree that whate...
Baroness Beckett | 455 c1426-7 (Link to this contribution) Frankly, that is rather a silly remark. First, the Prime Minister has given a very clear and simple ...
Alex Salmond | 455 c1426 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Foreign Secretary. On 25 October last year, at Prime Minister’s questions, the Prime Min...
Gerald Kaufman | 455 c1430 (Link to this contribution) Has my right hon. Friend any estimate of Iraqi civilian deaths or of the deaths of Iranians and Kuwa...
Baroness Beckett | 455 c1429 (Link to this contribution) What I make of it is that an awful lot of people have hugely varying assessments and it is extremely...
Harry Cohen | 455 c1429 (Link to this contribution) On the matter of Iraqi civilian deaths since the finish of the war, I know that the Government do no...
Baroness Beckett | 455 c1429-30 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend is right. She may be aware that in an interview with al-Arabiya some little tim...
Jane Kennedy | 455 c1429 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend said that the American Government and the Iraqi Government were standing togeth...
Baroness Beckett | 455 c1429 (Link to this contribution) I am not aware of the general’s precise words, but I am not the slightest bit surprised at his senti...
Baroness Beckett | 455 c1429 (Link to this contribution) No, I do not agree that there is civil war. What is much more to the point is that the Government of...
Tobias Ellwood | 455 c1429 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the right hon. Lady. She has painted a positive picture of what is happening in Ira...
Baroness Beckett | 455 c1428 (Link to this contribution) I will give way to the hon. Member for Meirionnydd Nant Conwy (Mr. Llwyd), then I must make progress...
Baroness Beckett | 455 c1426 (Link to this contribution) If the hon. Gentleman does not mind, I will make a little progress with my speech. Our fundamental ...
Baroness Beckett | 455 c1426 (Link to this contribution) In a moment. We have this month urged Prime Minister al-Maliki to redouble his efforts with all comm...
Lord Bellingham | 455 c1426 (Link to this contribution) Will the Secretary of State give way?
Baroness Beckett | 455 c1425 (Link to this contribution) The middle east is a region that engages every aspect of foreign policy, not just our security with ...
Baroness Beckett | 455 c1425 (Link to this contribution) I do not recall whether the right hon. and learned Gentleman was in the Chamber—he may well have bee...
Malcolm Rifkind | 455 c1425 (Link to this contribution) As the disastrous conflict in Iraq has rightly been referred to as Blair’s war, will the Foreign Sec...
Jane Kennedy | 455 c1453 (Link to this contribution) Will the right hon. and learned Gentleman give way?
Lord Campbell of Pittenweem | 455 c1452-3 (Link to this contribution) Of course I do not. If the hon. Gentleman is arguing that the rules do not matter, that the ends alw...
Lord Gove | 455 c1452 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. and learned Gentleman has referred repeatedly to the liberation of Iraq as illegal. L...
Lord Campbell of Pittenweem | 455 c1453 (Link to this contribution) I would have more sympathy for that question if we were not already causing our troops in Afghanista...
Lord Arbuthnot of Edrom | 455 c1453 (Link to this contribution) I am listening with respect and admiration to the right hon. and learned Gentleman, but I am genuine...
Mike Gapes | 455 c1448-9 (Link to this contribution) Fortunately for the hon. Gentleman, I am not the Prime Minister. I am explaining my reason for votin...
Gordon Prentice | 455 c1449 (Link to this contribution) This debate is all about learning lessons. We have had the memoirs of Paul Bremer of the coalition p...
Mike Gapes | 455 c1449-50 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend tempts me into an area that would take a long time to deal with. I refer him to the e...
Lord Campbell of Pittenweem | 455 c1450-2 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Member for Ilford, South (Mike Gapes) is right to say that a lot has happened in four or fi...
Adam Price | 455 c1442 (Link to this contribution) Was the right hon. Gentleman surprised to hear the Foreign Secretary say, in response to an interven...
Lord Hague of Richmond | 455 c1440-2 (Link to this contribution) Of course, without an inquiry we do not know what advice was given by the British Government at the ...
Bernard Jenkin | 455 c1443 (Link to this contribution) I fully concur with the sentiments my right hon. Friend has expressed about the inability of this Go...
Lord Hague of Richmond | 455 c1442-3 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman’s intervention brings me to an important point. I was surprised by one or two thi...
Mike Gapes | 455 c1443 (Link to this contribution) Can the right hon. Gentleman clarify for the record what his attitude is to President Bush's proposa...
Lord Hague of Richmond | 455 c1443 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend must bear in mind the Iranian attitude to efforts to engage with it. I will come to t...
Lembit Opik | 455 c1444-5 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman will be aware of the pressure on the Baha’i community in Iran. He will also...
Lord Hague of Richmond | 455 c1443-4 (Link to this contribution) That is the very point that I am coming to. We should be clear that there are many things to welcome...
Lord Hague of Richmond | 455 c1440 (Link to this contribution) I will give way to the hon. Gentleman, but then I will make a bit more progress.
Eric Illsley | 455 c1440 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman seemed to be working towards this in his speech, but I will ask him in any ...
Lord Hague of Richmond | 455 c1446-7 (Link to this contribution) Of course I welcome the Iraqi Government working with their neighbours. One of the advantages of set...
Alex Salmond | 455 c1446 (Link to this contribution) The Iraqi Foreign Minister, Mr. Zebari, was quoted in the wires yesterday as welcoming the Iranian-S...
Lord Hague of Richmond | 455 c1446 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is right. He refers to yet another difficulty that has arisen in recent months with t...
Daniel Kawczynski | 455 c1445-6 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend will recall that the Iranians seized some of our service personnel in the Shatt...
Jeremy Browne | 455 c1448 (Link to this contribution) I am confused by what the hon. Gentleman just said. When the Prime Minister used to speak on this su...
Mike Gapes | 455 c1447-8 (Link to this contribution) I agree very much with the concluding remarks of the right hon. Member for Richmond, Yorks (Mr. Hagu...
Speaker | 455 c1447 (Link to this contribution) Order. I remind Members that Mr. Speaker has placed a 10-minute limit on Back-Bench speeches, which ...
Baroness Beckett | 455 c1445 (Link to this contribution) I hope that I can help the right hon. Gentleman. The Foreign Ministers meeting agreed that the crite...
Lord Hague of Richmond | 455 c1445 (Link to this contribution) We hope that that bears fruit, although I am referring to measures that go beyond the measures agree...
Lord Hague of Richmond | 455 c1445 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman makes a strong point about human rights in Iran, and the Foreign Secretary made s...
Lee Scott | 455 c1435 (Link to this contribution) Will the Foreign Secretary give way?
Baroness Beckett | 455 c1436;455 c1435-6 (Link to this contribution) I am sorry, but I must make some progress. There have been recent positive developments. The Gaza c...
Lord Gove | 455 c1436 (Link to this contribution) Will the Foreign Secretary give way?
Baroness Beckett | 455 c1436 (Link to this contribution) I apologise to the hon. Gentleman, but I must continue. [Interruption.]
Chris Mullin | 455 c1435 (Link to this contribution) May I put it to my right hon. Friend that time is running out for a two-state solution in the middle...
Baroness Beckett | 455 c1435 (Link to this contribution) Israelis and Palestinians do need to learn, however painfully, to live alongside each other. The alt...
John Barrett | 455 c1435 (Link to this contribution) Given the construction of the barrier wall, razor wire fences, ditches and access roads to Israeli s...
Baroness Beckett | 455 c1435 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is inviting me to talk about the final status negotiations. He will know that it ...
Speaker | 455 c1437;455 c1436 (Link to this contribution) Order. The Foreign Secretary has said that she will not take any more interventions. It must be reme...
Baroness Beckett | 455 c1437-8;455 c1437 (Link to this contribution) Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I am conscious of that, and that is why I have been trying to make progress....
Angus Brendan MacNeil | 455 c1440 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman has probably noticed that the leader of every mainland party is in the Cham...
Lord Hague of Richmond | 455 c1440 (Link to this contribution) I think that the hon. Gentleman may have already gathered my answer to that from what I said earlier...
Peter Kilfoyle | 455 c1439;455 c1438-9 (Link to this contribution) I suppose that my question has been slightly stolen. I take on board the right hon. Gentleman’s comm...
Lord Hague of Richmond | 455 c1439-40 (Link to this contribution) I understand the hon. Gentleman’s question, but I do not think that it is up to the Opposition to ap...
Edward Leigh | 455 c1438 (Link to this contribution) The Conservative party was sold this war on a false premise. We were lied to by the Government. I ke...
Lord Hague of Richmond | 455 c1438-9;455 c1438 (Link to this contribution) I must say that I do not fully agree with my hon. Friend about that. I voted for the invasion of Ira...
Peter Kilfoyle | 455 c1438 (Link to this contribution) Will the right hon. Gentleman give way?
Lord Hague of Richmond | 455 c1438 (Link to this contribution) I will certainly do so in a moment. The UN Assistance Mission for Iraq, however, gives a figure of ...
Lord Hague of Richmond | 455 c1438;455 c1437-8 (Link to this contribution) This is a debate for which many in the House have been calling for some time. British troops have be...
Baroness Beckett | 455 c1430 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend is, as so often, entirely right. I find it astonishing that people so readily d...
Baroness Beckett | 455 c1430-1 (Link to this contribution) I fear that I must get on. The House has shown great interest in the implications of the new Baghda...
Bernard Jenkin | 455 c1431-2 (Link to this contribution) When the Iraq Study Group report was first published, the Government broadly welcomed it. A key reco...
Baroness Beckett | 455 c1432 (Link to this contribution) First, we broadly welcome the analysis—the proposals in the Iraq Study Group’s report are interestin...
Edward Leigh | 455 c1432 (Link to this contribution) I hope that the Foreign Secretary will forgive me if I take her back to an important point. She set ...
Baroness Beckett | 455 c1432 (Link to this contribution) I have not set a timeline. The hon. Gentleman invites me to share something with hon. Members that w...
David Howarth | 455 c1432 (Link to this contribution) Does the Foreign Secretary agree with what the Prime Minister wrote in the current edition of Foreig...
Baroness Beckett | 455 c1433;455 c1432-3 (Link to this contribution) The Prime Minister, as ever, made a sensible point that it is important to try to encourage the deve...
Chris Bryant | 455 c1433 (Link to this contribution) Has my right hon. Friend had an opportunity to see early-day motion 625, which, curiously, states th...
Baroness Beckett | 455 c1433 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is entirely right. No one wishes to be an enemy of Iran, but it is difficult to be as...
Baroness Beckett | 455 c1433 (Link to this contribution) I have been quite consistent and clear in saying that nobody is contemplating such action, and I sin...
Paddy Tipping | 455 c1433 (Link to this contribution) Will the Secretary of State commit herself to the long-standing policy of building relationships wit...
Sadiq Khan | 455 c1433 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the dialogue that the Foreign Secretary described between the UK, Iran and Syria, particul...
Baroness Beckett | 455 c1434 (Link to this contribution) I apologise to my hon. Friend, but I must get on. I realise that I have been speaking for half an ho...
Lord Bruce of Bennachie | 455 c1434-5;455 c1434 (Link to this contribution) Does the Secretary of State acknowledge that, welcome as the increase in aid to the Palestinian peop...
Baroness Beckett | 455 c1433-4 (Link to this contribution) I entirely accept my hon. Friend’s point that Iran and Syria are countries of great significance in ...
Ann Cryer | 455 c1434 (Link to this contribution) Will my right hon. Friend give way?
Baroness Beckett | 455 c1435 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend will appreciate that I have now moved on to talk about the middle east, but she has m...
Baroness Beckett | 455 c1435 (Link to this contribution) We have continued to provide support, but the right hon. Gentleman is right to say that it cannot ma...
Ann Cryer | 455 c1435 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend has not yet commented on the position of women in Iraq, drawing comparisons bet...
Richard Younger-Ross | 455 c1508 (Link to this contribution) I congratulate the shadow Foreign Secretary, who spoke for the Conservative party, on saying somethi...
Harry Cohen | 455 c1506-7 (Link to this contribution) That point is well made, and it was well put on the front page of The Independent last Friday in an ...
Greg Mulholland | 455 c1506 (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Gentleman for giving way and for eloquently painting that depressing picture. The s...
Harry Cohen | 455 c1505-6 (Link to this contribution) The war and the occupation have been a catastrophe in many ways—no wonder the Prime Minister has bee...
Lord Risby | 455 c1503-5 (Link to this contribution) We have heard already this afternoon about the moving meeting that took place in the Palace of Westm...
Michael Meacher | 455 c1502-3 (Link to this contribution) No, my time is running out. As for us, what moral authority do we have to say that Iran does not ne...
Mark Francois | 455 c1502 (Link to this contribution) Will the right hon. Gentleman give way?
Michael Meacher | 455 c1501-2 (Link to this contribution) I am not sure what the hon. Gentleman is referring to. There is no question but that Israel has a ve...
Kim Howells | 455 c1521-2 (Link to this contribution) No. It is a task fraught with difficulties, and rarely has it been any different. The middle east i...
Jeremy Corbyn | 455 c1524 (Link to this contribution) rose in his place and claimed to move, That the Question be now put. Question put:— The House proc...
Kim Howells | 455 c1522-4 (Link to this contribution) No, I do not have time to do so. It is all very well to call for talks with Iran and, through the E...
John Hemming | 455 c1509 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend accept that, generally, people publicly welcome occupation troops because of the...
Richard Younger-Ross | 455 c1509 (Link to this contribution) When the hon. Lady has been here longer, she will realise that we often have to guess what people wo...
Joan Ruddock | 455 c1510-1 (Link to this contribution) Like many of my hon. Friends, I have had Iraqi friends all my adult life, and I always opposed Sadda...
Richard Younger-Ross | 455 c1509-10 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes a good point. Personally, I am extremely pessimistic about the situation in Ira...
Joan Ruddock | 455 c1511-3 (Link to this contribution) I thank my hon. Friend for that point. As I am sure he knows, the one is legal and the other is enti...
Harry Cohen | 455 c1511 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is right to question the Prime Minister’s distinction between hard and soft power—bet...
Colin Burgon | 455 c1515-7 (Link to this contribution) I was brought up a Roman Catholic, and I am well aware of the power of confession. It is in the ligh...
John Baron | 455 c1513-5 (Link to this contribution) I shall confine my remarks to Iraq. I add my voice to those who believe that the absence of the Prim...
Kim Howells | 455 c1520-1 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the Members of this House, who, through their contributions to this afternoon’s lon...
Keith Simpson | 455 c1517-20 (Link to this contribution) We have had a long and interesting debate, to which some 23 Back Benchers from all parties have cont...
Jeremy Corbyn | 455 c1496-7 (Link to this contribution) I am slightly older than my hon. Friend, and that longevity has possibly given me even greater wisdo...
Diane Abbott | 455 c1496 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend agree that for those of us who are just old enough to remember the Vietnamese wa...
Jeremy Corbyn | 455 c1496 (Link to this contribution) That has become clear, and I am pleased that my hon. Friends have made those points, as, clearly, th...
Michael Meacher | 455 c1501 (Link to this contribution) I agree with my hon. Friend. This rearguard attempt to pre-empt the lion’s share of the remaining oi...
Baroness Clark of Kilwinning | 455 c1501 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend will be aware that the anti-war movement has been saying for a long time that t...
Speaker | 455 c1501 (Link to this contribution) Order. Interventions must be brief; many Members are waiting to speak.
Speaker | 455 c1499 (Link to this contribution) Order. The hon. Gentleman knows that he must refer to Members by their constituency or their office....
Michael Meacher | 455 c1499-501 (Link to this contribution) This has been an important and poignant debate, not least because of the passionate speech that we h...
Speaker | 455 c1497 (Link to this contribution) Order. The hon. Gentleman’s time is up.
George Galloway | 455 c1497-9 (Link to this contribution) When I was his warm-up act, I used to describe the right hon. Member for Manchester, Gorton (Sir Ger...
Jeremy Corbyn | 455 c1494 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is right; I stand corrected. This means that almost 4 million Iraqis have either beco...
John McDonnell | 455 c1494 (Link to this contribution) Is it not therefore an absolute disgrace that this Government are still deporting Iraqi asylum seeke...
Dawn Butler | 455 c1495 (Link to this contribution) The proposed oil law is indeed a bit suspicious. Does my hon. Friend also share my concern as to whe...
Jeremy Corbyn | 455 c1494-5 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend has made a good point. My constituency has often welcomed asylum seekers from conflic...
Baroness Clark of Kilwinning | 455 c1495 (Link to this contribution) Is my hon. Friend aware of a meeting of Iraqi trade leaders that took place in Jordan in December, a...
Jeremy Corbyn | 455 c1495 (Link to this contribution) That is a legitimate concern, and I hope that the Minister will be able to throw some light on the f...
Jeremy Corbyn | 455 c1495 (Link to this contribution) I agree with my friend; it would be illegal to do that, because Britain and the United States are, i...
Robert N Wareing | 455 c1496 (Link to this contribution) Has my hon. Friend seen the draft law, in which 75 per cent. of the profits will go to companies suc...
Jeremy Corbyn | 455 c1496 (Link to this contribution) I have been more generous in giving way than the Minister was, and I have less time, but I will give...
Peter Kilfoyle | 455 c1485-6 (Link to this contribution) That is absolutely the case. Countries around the world are looking at what we are proposing to do w...
Harry Cohen | 455 c1494 (Link to this contribution) I want to correct my hon. Friend. I saw the BBC website, and it said that 2 million Iraqis had fled ...
Lord Touhig | 455 c1489 (Link to this contribution) Once again in these past weeks, the continued violence in Iraq has dominated the news coverage from ...
Marquess of Lothian | 455 c1488-9 (Link to this contribution) My understanding from the conversation that I had was that he said that there was a series of condit...
Kim Howells | 455 c1488 (Link to this contribution) I have never seen the senior Foreign Office official Nigel Sheinwald look combative and offensive. H...
Marquess of Lothian | 455 c1486-8 (Link to this contribution) A year ago, I called for the withdrawal of our troops from Iraq. I did so because I believed that we...
Jeremy Corbyn | 455 c1494 (Link to this contribution) The debate is crucial. It is about the role of Parliament and the political institutions of this cou...
Elfyn Llwyd | 455 c1491-4 (Link to this contribution) Many people welcome today’s debate in Government time, but it is unfortunate that it is on an Adjour...
Lord Touhig | 455 c1489-91 (Link to this contribution) The reconstruction of Iraq is vital to its future, so our contribution is important, and I hope to d...
Dawn Butler | 455 c1489 (Link to this contribution) Does my right hon. Friend agree that the expected reduction of the number of British troops in Iraq ...
Angus Brendan MacNeil | 455 c1485 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Gentleman agree with the assessment of Hans Blix that the further development of a nex...
Peter Kilfoyle | 455 c1485 (Link to this contribution) I accept that, but"““Stone walls do not a prison make,""Nor iron bars a cage””." The other importan...
Gregory Campbell | 455 c1481-3 (Link to this contribution) I begin by paying tribute to all the British soldiers and other service personnel who are contributi...
Gerald Kaufman | 455 c1480-1 (Link to this contribution) The last words of the right hon. Member for Gordon (Malcolm Bruce) demonstrate the centrality of the...
Gerald Kaufman | 455 c1485 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is right to say that the wall is a prison for the Palestinians, but it is also a pris...
Peter Kilfoyle | 455 c1483-5 (Link to this contribution) It is nearly four years since the great debate of 18 March 2003. Many hon. Members of all parties ha...
John Bercow | 455 c1477 (Link to this contribution) If the purpose of the construction of the fence were merely to establish and preserve Israeli securi...
Jane Kennedy | 455 c1476-7 (Link to this contribution) I was about to acknowledge that the $100 million represents one sixth of what the Israelis have coll...
Lord Bruce of Bennachie | 455 c1477-80 (Link to this contribution) While it was perfectly fair for the right hon. Member for Liverpool, Wavertree (Jane Kennedy) to mak...
Jane Kennedy | 455 c1477 (Link to this contribution) I understand that criticism. The primary objective of Israel, however, is the defence of its people,...
Lord Bruce of Bennachie | 455 c1476 (Link to this contribution) Of course that is a welcome step, but does not the right hon. Lady acknowledge that, in terms of the...
Jane Kennedy | 455 c1475-6 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is right. It is too easy to dismiss the election of that Government and to describe t...
Wayne David | 455 c1475 (Link to this contribution) Does my right hon. Friend acknowledge that it is important to emphasise that there is a democratical...
Jane Kennedy | 455 c1474-5 (Link to this contribution) In the shifting sands of change in the middle east, there is one established certainty. We know—the ...
Malcolm Rifkind | 455 c1474 (Link to this contribution) I accept my right hon. Friend’s comment. The quid pro quo has to be two things from Iran: an effecti...
Iain Duncan Smith | 455 c1473 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. and learned Friend will acknowledge that Libya renounced all its nuclear ambitions and...
Malcolm Rifkind | 455 c1471-3 (Link to this contribution) I begin by declaring an interest in a company that operates in the middle east. On 12 January, the P...
Gavin Strang | 455 c1471 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman makes a valuable point. We have to use the word ““overstretch””, although the Gov...
Robert Smith | 455 c1470-1 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman is making a powerful speech, but is he also aware that some people now bein...
Gavin Strang | 455 c1469-70 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Member for Louth and Horncastle (Sir Peter Tapsell) has made an interesting contribution ab...
Lord Jackson of Peterborough | 455 c1462-3 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend has always been consistent in his approach, but does it not reflect very badly ...
Iain Duncan Smith | 455 c1463-4 (Link to this contribution) Yes, there were differences, and I guess that any inquiry later on will deal with them. Some of thos...
Iain Duncan Smith | 455 c1464 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman can sit down; he will get his own chance in due course. I was a little depressed...
Robert Smith | 455 c1464 (Link to this contribution) Will the right hon. Gentleman give way?
Iain Duncan Smith | 455 c1464 (Link to this contribution) No, I will not give way. We want our troops out, but we want them out when Iraq is secure and stabl...
Marquess of Lothian | 455 c1466 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend used the phrase ““cut and run””, which has been used on a number of occasions. At wha...
Peter Tapsell | 455 c1466-8 (Link to this contribution) One will just have to make a judgment—[Laughter.] That is what politics is all about. It has been th...
Ann Clwyd | 455 c1464-6 (Link to this contribution) After 23 years as a Member, I never thought that I would stand here and say that I agreed with almos...
Peter Tapsell | 455 c1466 (Link to this contribution) By absenting himself from this debate, the Prime Minister, one of the architects of the Iraq catastr...
Lord Campbell of Pittenweem | 455 c1458 (Link to this contribution) Nothing. The point is that the aircraft are part of the overall air effort and if we are withdrawing...
Bernard Jenkin | 455 c1458 (Link to this contribution) Will the right hon. and learned Gentleman give way?
Lord Campbell of Pittenweem | 455 c1458 (Link to this contribution) No, I have given way to the hon. Gentleman already. No one can accuse the United Kingdom of cutting...
Frank Dobson | 455 c1458-60 (Link to this contribution) Sometimes debates on foreign affairs get involved in so much detail that we lose sight of the fact t...
Frank Dobson | 455 c1460 (Link to this contribution) No, I shall not. Its portrayal across the world has let loose a tide of enmity against Britain and ...
Iain Duncan Smith | 455 c1460-2 (Link to this contribution) I start by expressing my warmest regards and thanks to British troops now operating in many spheres—...
John Bercow | 455 c1462 (Link to this contribution) Of course my right hon. Friend is right to say that there is a general recognition that we cannot in...
Iain Duncan Smith | 455 c1462 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend and I agree on the fact that, since the ending of the cold war, there has been time f...
Speaker | 455 c1457 (Link to this contribution) Order. May I say to the right hon. and learned Gentleman—
Keith Simpson | 455 c1457 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the right hon. and learned Gentleman. If the right hon. and learned Gentleman were...
Lord Campbell of Pittenweem | 455 c1457-8 (Link to this contribution) Let me make it clear. I believe that the debate—not just our debate today, but the debate in the cou...
Keith Simpson | 455 c1457 (Link to this contribution) Will the right hon. and learned Gentleman give way?
Lord Campbell of Pittenweem | 455 c1457 (Link to this contribution) I will give way to the hon. Gentleman for old times’ sake, but this must be the last intervention.
Speaker | 455 c1457 (Link to this contribution) I was trying to point out to the right hon. and learned Member for Rushcliffe (Mr. Clarke) and to th...
Lord Campbell of Pittenweem | 455 c1457 (Link to this contribution) As the right hon. and learned Member for Rushcliffe (Mr. Clarke) said, he and I often find ourselves...
Iain Duncan Smith | 455 c1455 (Link to this contribution) Will the right hon. and learned Gentleman give way?
Malcolm Rifkind | 455 c1455 (Link to this contribution) Will the right hon. and learned Gentleman give way on that point?
Daniel Kawczynski | 455 c1456 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the right hon. and learned Gentleman for giving way. It is generally acknowledged t...
Lord Campbell of Pittenweem | 455 c1456 (Link to this contribution) If I may say so, the Prime Minister was not looking to me for support for his policies. However, I s...
Lord Clarke of Nottingham | 455 c1456-7 (Link to this contribution) I agree with the right hon. and learned Gentleman on that point, and I agree with 99 per cent. of wh...
Bernard Jenkin | 455 c1455 (Link to this contribution) Will the right hon. and learned Gentleman give way?
Lord Campbell of Pittenweem | 455 c1455 (Link to this contribution) That is why I say that, to concentrate people’s minds and ensure that we meet our domestic responsib...
Iain Duncan Smith | 455 c1455-6 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the right hon. and learned Gentleman. He has not quite answered the question that w...
Lord Campbell of Pittenweem | 455 c1456 (Link to this contribution) How can a country be accused of ““cut and run”” when it has spent the best part of four years endeav...
Daniel Kawczynski | 455 c1454 (Link to this contribution) Will the right hon. and learned Gentleman give way?
Jane Kennedy | 455 c1454 (Link to this contribution) Will the right hon. and learned Gentleman give way?
Lord Campbell of Pittenweem | 455 c1454 (Link to this contribution) I shall not respond to that charge. I shall leave others to form a judgment about my attitudes and a...
Bernard Jenkin | 455 c1454 (Link to this contribution) I am most grateful to the right hon. and learned Gentleman, who is making a strong pitch for his cas...
Lord Campbell of Pittenweem | 455 c1455 (Link to this contribution) If that is the right hon. Lady’s approach—[Interruption.] Let us examine the basis of her question. ...
Jane Kennedy | 455 c1455 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the right hon. and learned Gentleman. His response to the two earlier interventions...
Lord Campbell of Pittenweem | 455 c1455 (Link to this contribution) No, as I wish to make some progress. At the heart of the middle east question lies the issue of Isr...
Wayne David | 455 c1454 (Link to this contribution) Will the right hon. and learned Gentleman give way on that point?
Lord Campbell of Pittenweem | 455 c1454 (Link to this contribution) In a moment. We must also look at the issues to do with Syria and Iran. The risk attached to Iranian...
Bernard Jenkin | 455 c1454 (Link to this contribution) Will the right hon. and learned Gentleman give way?
Elfyn Llwyd | 455 c1428 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Foreign Secretary for giving way. She mentioned the build-up of American troops. Is she ...
Lord Campbell of Pittenweem | 455 c1453 (Link to this contribution) No, as I shall deal with the question in due course and in my own time. The right hon. Lady should c...
Lord Campbell of Pittenweem | 455 c1455 (Link to this contribution) In a moment. Is the stability of Iraq to be guaranteed? Should we say that we will remain there for ...
Jeremy Corbyn | 455 c1427 (Link to this contribution) In the course of her speech, will the Foreign Secretary give us some accurate estimate of the number...
Baroness Beckett | 455 c1427 (Link to this contribution) That is what the Prime Minister will come to the House to report. The greatest challenge that the r...
Anne Main | 455 c1509 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman commented that if the Iraqis came here they would say that they want us to stay i...
Mark Pritchard | 455 c1501 (Link to this contribution) What evidence does the right hon. Gentleman have to make such a strong assertion against Israel?
Baroness Beckett | 455 c1426 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Member for Banff and Buchan (Mr. Salmond) was first.
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Armed forces Armed conflict Casualties Civilians Women Human rights Iraq Economic situation Foreign policy Nuclear weapons Peacekeeping operations Politics and government Violence USA UN resolutions Israel Palestine Iran Syria Middle East Reconstruction Peace negotiations Iraq conflict Lebanon Occupied territories Ceasefires
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